Subj : Re: Packet BBS?
To   : Bob Worm
From : echicken
Date : Thu Oct 10 2024 06:41 pm

  Re: Re: Packet BBS?
  By: Bob Worm to Ed Vance on Thu Oct 10 2024 23:07:47

 BW> To be honest since I tried to find the origins of that term and drew a
 BW> blank I'm not entirely comfortable with using it :)

Last I checked nobody knows for sure, but the strongest contender for an 
explanation was that unskilled wire telegraph operators used a lid of a tobacco 
tin to help them copy received signals. I suppose it rattled or otherwise 
amplified the clicks.

Nobody knows for sure where the name "ham" comes from either, and there is a 
lot of speculation, much of it a bit silly.

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